Cat in the Hat Writing Paper Free on Teachers Pay Teachers

Cat in the Hat Writing Paper Free on Teachers Pay Teachers. Click on the post title.

Time for Dr. Seuss-Read Across America Day

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Today we had a great time practicing a choral reading that we will read over the intercom for Read Across America Day on March. I divided the kids into five groups and each group has a four line stanza. After getting them into groups I asked them to circle three words in their stanza that they wanted to put emphasis on. It was an interesting discussion as I walked about the classroom. Some groups picked their words quickly others took a while to decide. I was really pleased to hear them read chorally and out loud with great expression. Just shows you can't underestimate first graders. Tomorrow I'll provide you the link to the poem written by a fellow NEA member.

Penguin Handprints after Reading "Tacky the Penguin" by Helen Lester

We traced our hands on black paper and cut the handprint out. Then we used white rectangles, small white squares, small orange squares and yellow paper to design our penguins. We love the book "Tacky the Penguin". Tacky has many crazy adventures. He certainly isn't your average penguin. We are comparing penguins in fiction and non-fiction.

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Try Wordle Make Designs with the Words You Love~Great Technology and Literacy Integration Activity

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Write a Letter to A Lion through Letter for Lion by National Geographic

This is an excellent activity that integrates literacy and science. The children would love to create these letters in a literacy center. Mail your letters to:
National Geographic
Digital Media - Kids
M-4430
1145 17th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Super Heros-Batman loves Readers, Writers and Mathematicians

Let's face it boys and a lot of girls love Superheros!  It my job to teach them all.  I found this dry erase board in the Target Dollar Bin.  I plan to use it for sentence writing and word sorts.  It will also work well in math centers.  Superheros love great readers and writers! Kablamo.....I can't wait to see the kids reactions when they find this in a literacy or math center.

Target Dollar Bin Hearts and Erasers for Reading and Math

I am really excited about these foam hearts from the dollar section of my local Target in Greensboro, NC.
I plan to use them for a math center but they could easily be used for literacy centers as well.  Since I may want to "program" them for several different activities I plan to use small labels for the questions and answers I will put on the back of them.  I will use them first for an addition concentration game with math sentences on half of the hearts and the answers on the other half.  You could also use them for subtraction, multiplication or division facts.  The children in my classroom love the concentration format for game playing.  They could also be used for opposites or matching sight words.  The options are endless.  I also had to get a couple of packs of the small erasers for math manipulatives.  I use dice quite a bit in my math centers.  I am planning to use these as counters for math problems that the children roll with the dice.  One child may roll a four and then get four erasers then roll a six and six erasers.  They will record their rolls and then count all of the erasers to get the total. Link for recording sheet for this activity:  it is free
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Febuary-Addition-Math-Center-Recording-Sheet